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CAKE may be my favorite band of all time. I don't post them up here much but I listen to them almost daily and have been since the mid 90's. I think it's the focus on melody and beat. That the bass, drums, keys, horn all share the space incredibly well and have their moments to shine.

This might be my favorite of theirs, but I could probably say that about a dozen of their songs. I just think that this song encapsulates that layered, building, melodic sound I love so much from CAKE.

 
Harry Klippton said:
This is also that kind of band I want to be in. Too bad we're on opposite sides of the continent
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I sent it to my guitar player/guy who writes our songs. I have sent him multiple links of songs you've posted to urge him in to that direction. He wants to do a band similar to Ghost, but I am trying to drag him down in to the filth and grime. I want something that'll bring out the heshers out of the woodwork.
 

Anyone have any idea of what kind of gnarly fuzz box was used all over this album? Doesn’t sound like any of the typical offenders of icepick fuzz: Bosstone, Fuzzrite, Shin Ei FY-2, Maestro FZ-1 (or any of the popular variations of it)

Definitely not a Pep box either, and I can’t think of too many other fuzz pedals that would have been available cheaply in the US in late ‘66 (considering that CJ&tF was a pretty low budget band according to old interviews, most of the other stuff seems like it would have been out of the band’s price range until after this album was released)
 
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@Bricksnbeatles Sounds too shrill to my ears, not ice-pick ear-piercing, just not to my taste — maybe it was just because it was played high up the neck?

Nonetheless, I wish I had as discerning ears as you and many others here do. I probably couldn't tell a Fuzzrite from a Fuzz Face unless I was told which was which. I do know that after listening to a friend's fuzz shoot-out, I like the Dizzy Tone a whole bloody lot! Anyway, if you find out what was fuzzing up "Pat's Song", please let me know as I'm trying to edjumucate my ears.


Hmm I like Cake, but that snare sounds horrible — so maybe it's not the fuzz on "Pat's Song" nor the snare on that Cake song that's the problem, maybe it's my ears degenerating with old age — but usually that means you lose high-end...


I've been listening to this a lot:


Watching the series, I usually let the title credits roll, 'cause I'm thinking that bass-line must be able to be done on an Ocelot with the dry muted. Very subby, lovely.

Further to that, I often listen to the end credits theme as well:

 
Feral Feline said:
@Bricksnbeatles Sounds too shrill to my ears, not ice-pick ear-piercing, just not to my taste — maybe it was just because it was played high up the neck?

Nonetheless, I wish I had as discerning ears as you and many others here do. I probably couldn't tell a Fuzzrite from a Fuzz Face unless I was told which was which. I do know that after listening to a friend's fuzz shoot-out, I like the Dizzy Tone a whole bloody lot! Anyway, if you find out what was fuzzing up "Pat's Song", please let me know as I'm trying to edjumucate my ears.


Hmm I like Cake, but that snare sounds horrible — so maybe it's not the fuzz on "Pat's Song" nor the snare on that Cake song that's the problem, maybe it's my ears degenerating with old age — but usually that means you lose high-end...


I've been listening to this a lot:


Watching the series, I usually let the title credits roll, 'cause I'm thinking that bass-line must be able to be done on an Ocelot with the dry muted. Very subby, lovely.

Further to that, I often listen to the end credits theme as well:

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Best animated series ever.
 
This came from several levels down a deep rabbit hole and ticks a LOT of boxes- country, soul, folk. Jim Ford wrote Niki Hoeky (connect nodes Bobbie Gentry, Aretha Franklin) and he wrote a bunch of the songs on Bobby Womack's BW goes C&W (connect node Bobby Womack, Aretha Franklin) plus others.

This song started my obsession with Clarence White, which led to my obsession with b-benders, and connected a node with my obsession with James Burton too
 
I moved to Orange County in the early 90's and The Offspring we're huge here. They were one of the first bands to get me in to all of the Nitro and Epitaph bands that I would come to love and grow up with. This song in particular always stood out as one of my favorites of theirs.

 
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